Date: 10/29/2019

Number: 19

The last several days I have seen quite a few butterflies (mostly monarchs but also painted ladies, buckeyes, and a few red admirals) passing through, stopping in the garden to nectar on lantana and butterfly bush.

This morning while walking four blocks along Cape May Beach I counted 19 monarchs - 2 were headed out of Cape May. All day my garden was covered with butterflies, again mostly monarchs!

While this year we have not had the huge numbers of monarchs migrating through as we’ve often seen in prior years, this has certainly been one of the longest- lasting migrations...And the overall population of monarchs I’ve seen has been notably very, very healthy!

Cape May, NJ

Latitude: 38.9 Longitude: -74.9

Observed by: Vidette
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